Difficulty Quote by Stephen Jay Gould

Why should things be easy to understand?

— Thomas Pynchon

It is our knowledge - the things we are sure of - that makes the world go wrong and keeps us from seeing and…

— Lincoln Steffens

It is what we think we know that keeps us from learning.

— Anonymous

It's human desire to be understood. And we always feel we're not understood.

— John Baldessari

Understanding reduces the greatest to simplicity, and lack of its causes the least to take on the magnitude.

— Raymond Holliwell

The most difficult part about understanding something is that we understand it all.

— Albert Einstein

There is so much more to the things that we think we know from afar. The close you get the more complex it is,…

— Susan Meiselas

Why Does every thing have to be so difficult?

— Mister Me

It is hard to learn when we think we know something.

— Peter Block

What makes a subject difficult to understand — if it is significant, important — is not that some special instruction about abstruse things is…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

With our human limitations we're not always able to understand the explanations.

— Madeleine L'Engle

The ultimate point of view is that there is nothing to understand, so when we try to understand, we are only indulging in acrobatics…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj